Did he give you a straight answer?
There just being a general sea-state no matter where you were bugged me a bit too, but I think it's pretty complex to separate a harbour from open sea. You could fairly easily define a harbour "zone" where the sea is always calm, but how would you make the transition between open sea and harbour zones smooth?
I hope pitching and rolling of the boat is a result of actual dynamics now as well, instead of a result from a few numbers in a .cfg file, but that would mean modeling of hydro-dynamics is necessary, at least in some basic form. Would get rid of that sub-on-rails effect; was a little ridiculous to see 3/4 of the boat out of the water at times in rough seas. :rotfl: